The Extended Canon
Golmaal
गोलमाल · 1979
A young employee invents a twin brother to keep a moustache-loving boss happy, then has to be both at once.
- Director
- Hrishikesh Mukherjee
- Year
- 1979
- Genre
- Comedy
- Cast
- Amol Palekar, Utpal Dutt, Bindiya Goswami
Why it's in the canon
Amol Palekar's everyman comedy at its peak. Utpal Dutt won a National Award for it.
A young employee invents a twin brother to keep a moustache-loving boss happy, then has to be both at once.
Golmaal sits in the 1970s alongside Sholay and Deewaar — a decade this canon treats as foundational.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee — also responsible for Anand, Chupke Chupke, Bawarchi.
- Released in 1979, in the 1970s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Comedy.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — Golmaal (1979) · data last revised 9 August 2026 · title, year, director and cast are read from that article; this site keeps no independent print record and does not claim one
Editorial Inclusion in the extended canon, unranked — not a measurement · last revised 9 August 2026 · signed by Amit Sharma · the scoring is published in full so the machinery can be argued with, not just the result
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